We Need to Focus on High Value, High Priority Activities

We Need to Focus on High Value, High Priority Activities

Recently I gave a talk on time management to a group of 60 business owners in Salem. The jest of my talk was that true wealth was not money but available free time. We can always make another dollar but we can’t make another minute of time. When the clock strikes 12, that’s it, we are out of time. And unfortunately many of us come to this realization late in life and wonder where did the time go?

So if time is a limited resource as is our energy and for many of us, our money. Are we using our time, energy and money wisely and focusing our efforts on the activities that are the highest and best use of these limited resources?

I believe that time management begins with Clarity of direction as I have discussed in previous blog posts. We must know where we are going in our business and personal lives.

Otherwise if we maximize our use of time, energy and money and we are headed in the wrong direction, we will have spent some valuable resources for naught.

We’re all working hard and most likely working a lot of hours to make our businesses successful. But are we focused on the right kind of work? Are we focused on the 20% of our activities that will generate 80% of the return of our investment of time, energy and money? Many times as business owners we get caught up doing low-value, low-priority work, the 80% and not the 20%. We must learn to focus our efforts and spend our time, energy and money on high value, high priority activities that will bring the greatest ROI of our investment of these important resources.

If you would like assistance in making dramatic improvements in your individual and organizational effectiveness, give me a call I am here to help.